Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans. The Focus Ex...
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans. The Focus Ex...
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans. The Focus Ex...
Nendo has completed a comprehensive makeover of all of Japan Airlines’ in-flight amenities, from meal trays to slippers and earplug wrappers, which draws on the lines of a paper crane. The revamp is based on the national carrier’s logo – a traditional crest known as a tsurumaru, in which a crane forms a circle with its outstretched wings. Above: blankets...
MIDI, the global standard that allows digital musical instruments to talk to each other, has a new brand identity based on sound waves designed by Pentagram. The logo for MIDI, which stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, was created by Pentagram partner and musician Yuri Suzuki together with graphic designer and partner Sascha Lobe. This refresh of MIDI’s identity replaces...
Burger King’s first rebrand in 20 years focuses on the American fast-food restaurant’s food and its past says its designer Lisa Smith, executive creative director at Jones Knowles Ritchie. The comprehensive redesign of Burger King‘s visual identity by Jones Knowles Ritchie included the creation of a retro logo that closely resembles the logo used by the brand in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. «We...
American automotive company General Motors has made its first substantial logo change in more than half a century as part of its pivot towards electric vehicles. The all-caps acronym that has featured in the General Motors logo since 1938 has been lowercased, with the negative space around the ‘m’ suggesting the shape of an electrical plug. Its navy backdrop has...
America’s Central Intelligence Agency has unveiled a new identity aimed at attracting more diverse employees but has refused to disclose the designer behind its new look. The redesign attracted speculation and ridicule on social media, with artist Ryder Ripps, who has previously designed for Marc Jacobs, Kanye West and Grimes among others, appearing to take credit for the redesign in...
South Korean car manufacturer Kia Motors has unveiled a new logo, which connects the letters of its name in an unbroken line. Kia Motors‘ new logo was revealed in a drone-based fireworks show that set a world record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles launching fireworks simultaneously. It consists of the brand’s name written in an angular font, with the...
Design consultancy Pentagram has created new branding for The Moholy-Nagy Foundation, which aims to embody the style and methods that artist and Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy used in his work. Established in 2003 by the artist’s daughter Hattula Moholy-Nagy, The Moholy-Nagy Foundation aims to preserve László Moholy-Nagy’s legacy by creating an online archive of his life and works. In addition...
Martin Lambie-Nairn, the British graphic designer who created the seminal «Blocks» logo for UK television station Channel 4, passed away on Christmas Day at the age of 75. He was also co-creator of the satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image. Lambie-Nairn was best known for his branding design for TV, which included creating the famous «Blocks» logo for Britain’s Channel...
A skateboarding Santa Claus, a festive snow globe and MVRDV’s mirrored art depot in Rotterdam feature in our selection of the best Christmas cards sent by architects, designers and brands this year. Alongside these joyous cards, was a more apocalyptic take on Christmas from British architect Piers Taylor tiled The Raft of Plague Island (below). «As the rest of the world...
